Emily Dickinson Quotes

A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush.

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.

June smiled. "So what will it be? Safety, or a future of pain and possibility?"

A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

I have always wanted to play for Aston Villa, so I am not going to sit there and think, 'I could have been there,' or whatever. The grass isn't always greener.

The hardest thing about free agency is sometimes you want it right away but you have to wait and see see what happens.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

I’m afraid you’re going to have to make a choice.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

What's worse ...? The devil you don't know ... or the devil you do?

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

To swing or not to swing? Swing.

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.